Parson Drove No. 1
Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005
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Results: 4 records
B01:
design element - motifs - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/pardrovejohn.htm] [accessed 22 November 2007]
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view of church exterior - east view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/pardrovejohn.htm] [accessed 22 November 2007]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/pardrovejohn.htm] [accessed 22 November 2007]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/pardrovejohn.htm] [accessed 22 November 2007]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10730PAR
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. John the Baptist [Parish Church of Parson Drove since 1870]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: 13 Main Road, Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire PE13 4LF
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 7 km SW of Leverignton, 11 km W of Wisbech
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Wisbech
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre of the nave, opposite the S entrance
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ben Colburn and Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches [www.druidic.org/camchurch/] for the information on and photographs of church and font.
No individual entry found for Parson Drove in the Domesday survey. The Victoria History of the Counties of England (Cambridge..., vol. 4, 2002) notes: "The chapel of St. John the Baptist, since 1870 (see Leverington) the parish church of Parson Drove, attained at a comparatively early date a more independent status than was usual with parochial chapelries. [...] The earliest portion of the present fabric is the north doorway, which belongs to the first half of the 13th century. [...] The font has a panelled octagonal bowl and is of 15th-century date." Pevsner (1970) writes: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], big, with elaborate quatrefoil panels on the bowl, and tracery on the stem." The church, now redundant, is in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust. The Trust's web site [www.visitchurches.org.uk] notes a "Perpendicular octagonal font" present in the church. Noted and illustrated in Cambridgeshire Churches (2005): "The 15th century font is octagonal and has shallow carving on the bowl."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.660908,
0.053769
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 39′ 39.27″ N,
0° 3′ 13.57″ E
UTM: 31U 300755 5838625
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with knob handle
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2005-03-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970
